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Hardware & ICS — signals, embedded devices, and OT protocols

Where security meets the physical layer: decoding bus traffic and industrial-control protocols most testers never touch.

Client: Classified — under NDA
Engagement: Live engagement against a production-grade system (under NDA)
Logic-analyzer decodeSerial/bus protocolsICS/OT protocolsFirmware artifacts

What we did

Decoded captured digital signals with a logic analyzer to recover the data carried on an embedded device's bus, and analyzed industrial-control-protocol traffic to understand and manipulate device commands. This is the layer beneath the application — where the device, the wire, and the control protocol live.

Why it matters to a client

If your product is an IoT device, an embedded component, or touches operational technology, the risk is not only in the web dashboard — it is on the device and the wire. Very few application testers can work at this layer; combining it with web/API testing means one assessor can follow a flaw from the cloud all the way to the hardware.

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